Board Games
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Elisha Dushku
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If your group - or any other group - does not play 18xx board games (and i include even the tiresome Hecht variants here - cause they're good for a laugh and a couple of whirls before you get back to the better ones) then they and you are merely diletantes. -Tip
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Stonemaier has a new game up for preorder called Between Two Castles. If you're part of their champion program it's 6 bucks off and free shipping. I have had a lot of fun with everything from them so far (Scythe and all it's expansions, Charterstone, Viticulture and My Little Scythe) that they have become a blind purchase company for me along the lines of From Software on the video game side.
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Between Two Castles of Mad King Ludwig
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(Champion Pre-Order) Between Two Castles of Mad King Ludwig - enter CHAMPIONSHIP code at checkout (or CHAMPION-INT for international champions)
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Between Two Castles of Mad King Ludwig
Champion Link
(Champion Pre-Order) Between Two Castles of Mad King Ludwig - enter CHAMPIONSHIP code at checkout (or CHAMPION-INT for international champions)
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Mudcrush Durtfeet
Hungry Ogre
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Most serious 18xx players frown on making deals, colluding, or trying to make other people lose because you are losing, it's pretty funny considering the subject matter.
Qhue
Trump's Staff
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We have Dice Forge and its actually been pretty fun. While the 'change the face of the die' seems like a cheap gimmick at first you quickly realize that its all about resource management with a healthy level of RNG thrown in via the dice themselves. Doesn't take too long to play and serves as a nice warm-up before having a soul-crushing round of Scythe etc.
Sludig
Silver Baronet of the Realm
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Speaking of scythe, had passed on the steam version as reviews bad and it looked rather rough. Waiting on the upcoming RTS.
Which RTS macro management is what dice forge reminds me of. Basically balancing maxing "production" then leaving time to then pump resources into score. So far 2 main strats really just seemed to max gold production like mad with hammer and cards for gold conversion vs just moon/fire for monster cards score. Not sure if a major 3rd way. It was fun enough especially if dice were easier to remove faces, but in the end, kinda felt hollow winning. At least with basic setup, winning didnt feel like much because you have so little interaction with others other than stuff like minotaur zapping some of their resources, didn't feel that competitive. Like you could basically just play by yourself for a "high score" then compare it to people playing on other days solo for all the actual strife there is in the game.
Which RTS macro management is what dice forge reminds me of. Basically balancing maxing "production" then leaving time to then pump resources into score. So far 2 main strats really just seemed to max gold production like mad with hammer and cards for gold conversion vs just moon/fire for monster cards score. Not sure if a major 3rd way. It was fun enough especially if dice were easier to remove faces, but in the end, kinda felt hollow winning. At least with basic setup, winning didnt feel like much because you have so little interaction with others other than stuff like minotaur zapping some of their resources, didn't feel that competitive. Like you could basically just play by yourself for a "high score" then compare it to people playing on other days solo for all the actual strife there is in the game.
Hatorade
A nice asshole.
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Finally got to play Wasteland Express Delivery Service. Great game, love pretty much all the mechanics and lots of replay value. Also one of the few board games where the inserts included null the need for 3rd party inserts like broken token.
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Hatorade
A nice asshole.
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Hatorade
A nice asshole.
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Hatorade
A nice asshole.
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Kuro
Naxxramas 1.0 Raider
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Finished Scythe campaign, was pretty good overall. Going to start trying out the new modules individually in normal games of Scythe.
Group picked up Raiders of the North, decent little game. Have to make sure your tempo matches the other players near the end of the game or you're likely to have wasted multiple turns when the game end condition triggers.
Group picked up Raiders of the North, decent little game. Have to make sure your tempo matches the other players near the end of the game or you're likely to have wasted multiple turns when the game end condition triggers.
meStevo
I think your wife's a bigfoot gus.
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In our one game of Root, the trader guy wasn't really playing correctly, and when when he realized what to do he went from like 10 victory points to winning within maybe 2 turns, lol.
All the factions looked interesting, need to play it a lot more.
All the factions looked interesting, need to play it a lot more.
Burren
Ahn'Qiraj Raider
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Looks really "cute" for the wife and her friends who like games, but also love that cute shit. But, at the same time, it looks like an in-depth and complicated game from some of the things I've read. Would it be a good fit for casual players, or do you need a DnD/EQ/nerd background to get it?
meStevo
I think your wife's a bigfoot gus.
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I think it could work great for casual players, as long as they can pay attention and are invested in it enough to learn what they need to do. Every player playing the game differently exponentially increases the time it takes to learn if 1-2 people have to learn every role in order for the rest of the group to be able to play, for example. Everything you can do is on your player card, broken into the phases you do them.
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Angerz
Trakanon Raider
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I think some of the factions are fine for casual players. But the table will certainly need at least one heavy gamer to police the game, since literally every faction is playing a different game, so one player who knows everything is super helpful. I think the only thing in the base box that would be rough for a casual gamer would be the Raccoon, since you are only one unit and interact on a VERY different axis with the game.